Car-mover.



STATES PATENT Frio.

CAR-MOVER.

SPEGJEFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,1 10, dated November 5, 1901. Application filed April 3,1901. Serial No. 54,146. VKNO model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDWARD A. MUNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Movers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car-movers, and is designed as an improvement upon my former patent, No. 464,379, dated December 1, 1891. In the use of the device as constructed according to said patent I have found that by reason of the occasional slipping of the cutter or biting lug between the adjoining ends of rails or in crossing a switch all the weight is thrown upon the spring, with the result that it is either broken or damaged. I have aimed to avoid these defects in the present construction and to provide a device which will also be free from the injurious effects arising from the accumulation of dirt under the spring adjacent to its point of connection to the mover.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation.

In the drawings, C represents the rail, with the mover shown mounted thereon in Fig. 1.

The body of the mover is indicated at B, having operating-lever A pivoted upon shaft or pivot-pin D. The cutter or biting edge is shown at E seated in a recess in the under side of the rear end of the body B. The for Ward end is provided with the usual bifurcated portion adapted to straddle the rail, as shown in Fig. 1.

Instead of making the bottom of the mover flat I rabbet it and curve the rabbeted portion preferably providinga double curve,as shown at G Gr. The main portion of the spring F is curved in a similar manner, as shown atf f', and aiiat portion at the forward end is secured by a set-screw or the like. With this construction when the curved sprin g is forced against the under face of the body or shoe, as hereinbefore referred to, all damage of crushing or breaking the same is avoided by reason of the seat conforming in shape to the spring.

In orderto prevent the accumulation of dirt at the angle formed between the spring and shoe or body, I make a recess .I at this point, which avoids a sharp angle or apex into which dirt may pack.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a car-mover, a shoe or body having a curved spring, and a face opposite said spring curved to conform to said spring, substantially as described.

2. In a car-mover, a body or shoe and a spring secured thereto, said shoe being recessed at the point where the spring joins the body, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD A. MUNSON.

Witnesses:

E. I-I. HUNT, A. J. ENGLEWOOD. 

